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Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2472, 18 January 1871, Page 2

Princess Theatre. —We had intended to give a description of the plot of ‘•After Dark,” now being so successfully represented at'the Princess’s, but in consequence of pressure on our space have been compelled to defer it. Art Union.—A few months back we called attention to the art union of Mr O’Brien’s pictures, as works of more than common merit. We observe that the drawing will take place at Mr G. B. West’s rooms, in Princes street, on Saturday. New I’ub lication. — Messrs Pcigusson and Mitchell have published this year an illuminated card almanack, in iivc colors, which evinces the progress of ornamental printing in Dunedin. The design is artistic, and the letterpress is-neat and tastefully executed. It will be a useful companion in the counting house or library. The Telegram Question. This question has assumed a phase not altogether unexpected. We understand that a criminal prosecution has been entered against the Editor of the Daili/ Times by the General Government, and that the magisterial investigation will take place before Mr Strode, 8.M., to-morrow morning. The Presbyterian Synod. The Synod sat until an early hour on Tuesday morning, apd, after discussion, it was resolved to sustain the call, by the church in Walker street, to the Bey. R. Seriingeonr.

A motion by the Rev. Mr Gillies, to the effect that Mr Scrimgeour should be admonished by the Synod, was lost by 2S to 7. The LandTranseer Act. —The great length at which we have been reporting the numerous political meetings during the last ten days has prevented us heretofore from giving our readers a summary of this great social and economical measure, which, we believe, it is intended shall come into use the first week iu February. We purpose going fully into the provisions of this Act previously, so as to prepare our readers for taking advantage of ic as soon a< it shall come into opr ration.

The Scarlet .Fever. —On enquiry, respecting the case of the child, William Beath, admitted into the hospital, suffering through scarlet fever, we find it is the child of Whilliam Beath, an old resident in Duncan street. Mr Heath's wife’s brother and sisters were passengers by the Robert Henderson, and one of the family was the first attacked with fever on board the vessel. It is supposed the virus was brought in some article of clothing that had escaped the disinfecting process, as not one of the passengers had the slightest symptom of sickness on leaving the quarantine ground. District Prize Firing.—The following is the result of the firing this morning at the Anderson’s Bay butts :

The firing on Friday will be for the .second set of prize 3. The first district will only have to-morrow for competing for the first set.

Deaths by Drowning.— lt will be remembered that, on the 30th June last year, Mr Stafford moved in the House of .Representatives for “a return of the names of all persons who have been drowned in each year from Ist January, 1840, to the present date in any river or stream in ftcw Zealand.” The return to the order of the House has been prepared, and the roll is a sufficiently ghastly one, although a memo, by Mr Cooper, the Under Secretary, allows that, from the imperfect state of the records, it is far from being an accurate statement of persons drowned in New Zealand rivers. Names of persons ascertained to have been drowned in harbors, wells, waterholes, swamps, and the sea, have been excluded from the repot. The number of persons drowned in the various Provinces and the total are as follow : Auckland, 227; Taranaki, 17 ; Hawke’s Bay, 40 ; Wellington, 1(55 ; Nelson, 102; Marlborough, 48; Canterbury, 135; Otago, 170 ; Southland, 37 ; Westland, 174; giving a total of 1115. This long list embraces people of every walk in life, of both sexes and a'l ages. The great majority of these deaths have occurred in attempting to ford or swim streams left unbridged, and not furnished with any other means of crossing. EXTR AOU DINAK V PiGK' CEDING. —The Wellington Pod, of the 7th instant, has the following We published yesterday an extract from each of the two Wanganui papers, giving varying accounts of a strange occurrence at Turakiua. The Chronicle says that the body of a new-born child was found in a garden, the throat cut, and the body otherwise mangled, the parties who found it knowing'at the time that the :: other was Mrs Hurst. A police constable, one of those who found the body, took steps to have an inquest held, and the jury returned a verdict which, under the circumstances, was a rather peculiar one. They expressed an opinion that Mrs Hurst gave birth to the child which formed the subject of the inquest, that she at the time was laboring under temporary insanity, but there was no evidence to show how the child’s throat was cut. This seems to have been all ; and the Chronicle, explains very coolly that it is supposed the mother killed the child, and afterwards made an attempt to bury it while ‘in a state of frenzy.’ All this is spoken of as a thing of course, and not a matter to be made the subject of a judicial investigation. The ( ’hronidd.i story is bad enough ; but it is quite eclipsed by the revolting tale of the Hr raid. That journal says : —‘ It was the still-born chi dof Mrs Hurst ; nhr had yiren il Io on<of her hoy* lo loiry, and on hi* yoiny to do so, h<; had met noth other hoy*, and Ihoy hft. it on Hu: road. < 'unstable M‘Lcan, hearing of the circumstance, obtained the body, and called a Coroner’s inquest,' ’

Mu Macassey’s Committee meets at eight o’clock.

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